I would really like to see my citizens buy and keep pets. I know there is already a monkey that nobles and entertainers can buy and keep, so I want more!

Cats were very important in ancient Egypt. The massive surpluses of food they produced were always under threat from rats and other animals who would sneak in to steal food. That's why Egyptians loved to own cats because they could protect food supplies and they were also good for companionship. I'm not sure how exactly you could implement this however, but I think it'd be really cool to see.

Then you could add other animals that were used, like when Nobles go hunting they should bring dogs with them.

LOL Even so the cats thing could be cool. You'd suffer a loss of bread (1%?) if you don't maintain a cat population. Could be a sink for some kind of resource (maybe cedar for cat housing). Something else to do an track. Maybe have the rat/cat thing be a little variable so there is a little risk trade off involved in figuring out the number of cats needed to keep the rats at bay. Would scale with breadstocks. More bread needs more cats to avoid the loss.

"Q-Man" wrote:LOL Even so the cats thing could be cool. You'd suffer a loss of bread (1%?) if you don't maintain a cat population. Could be a sink for some kind of resource (maybe cedar for cat housing). Something else to do an track. Maybe have the rat/cat thing be a little variable so there is a little risk trade off involved in figuring out the number of cats needed to keep the rats at bay. Would scale with breadstocks. More bread needs more cats to avoid the loss.

wait wait.. you mean we would need a cat army ... anyway

I like the idea to.. rats eat bread and damage buildings (they dig holes in stuff..)? (if you get to many rats they might even drop a buildings level?)

cat housing works, and they eat rats so don't need to feed them bread..
Just add it to the palace, have cat level... and "donate wood" to cat housing?

scale with bread stocks and city size i think.. (if you have more higher level buildings, there's more places to breed rats so?)

"Alexander Macedonia" wrote:I would really like to see my citizens buy and keep pets. I know there is already a monkey that nobles and entertainers can buy and keep, so I want more!

Cats were very important in ancient Egypt. The massive surpluses of food they produced were always under threat from rats and other animals who would sneak in to steal food. That's why Egyptians loved to own cats because they could protect food supplies and they were also good for companionship. I'm not sure how exactly you could implement this however, but I think it'd be really cool to see.

Then you could add other animals that were used, like when Nobles go hunting they should bring dogs with them.

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What i feel that gone are today the days when people steal be having and pet these days is such an feeling. I love to have a cat as my pet but a big lion cat. I just love to be adventurous. Please don't mind.

And of course, the Nile herded sheep and cattle for meat and milk... why do we settle for bread only??? I'm not sure but they probably fished as well... What about the camels... for milk, meat and traveling around the sand??? List can get very long but how much can TM incorporate???